MET Live in HD at Staller


All the excitement of a live Metropolitan Opera performance is yours right here at Staller Center. Enjoy live Met performances projected on the big screen in Staller Center’s Main Stage Theatre, in high definition with Dolby Digital surround sound. Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Tickets: $22 general admission; $20 senior citizens with ID on file; $15 students and children through the Staller Center Box Office, (631) 632-ARTS [2787] or online.
*Wagner’s Das Rheingold* – New Production Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 6 pm (Encore from October 9)** Expected Running time: 3 hours* Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage. The cycle launches with Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner’s epic drama. “The Ring is not just a story or a series of operas, it’s a cosmos,” says Lepage, who brings cutting-edge technology and his own visionary imagination to the world’s greatest theatrical journey. Bryn Terfel sings the leading role of Wotan for the first time with the company, heading an extraordinary cast. *Running time is approximate.
*Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov* – New Production Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 12 pm** Expected Running time: 5 hours* René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a production by Stephen Wadsworth. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. “There are two protagonists in Boris—the title character and the people he rules,” Wadsworth says. “Through Boris we see the private mind of a flawed leader, and through the chorus we see the volatility of a people skeptical about their leaders. Boris seems to me a good person who made a terrible mistake and ultimately cannot live with it. He yearns for his lost innocence.” Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast. *Running time is approximate.
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 1 pm Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes* Anna Netrebko revives her sensational turn in this sophisticated bel canto comedy, opposite Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, and John Del Carlo in the title role. Music Director James Levine conducts. When Otto Schenk’s production premiered in 2006, the New York Times called it “brilliant” and “wonderful.” *Running time is approximate.
*Verdi’s Don Carlo* – New Production Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm** Expected Running time: 4 hours, 30 minutes* Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s profound, beautiful, and most ambitious opera. Roberto Alagna leads the cast, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova, and Simon Keenlyside also star. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, back after his triumphant debut leading Carmen, conducts. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera,” Hytner says. “Right through this opera there is, on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, a succession of the most gloriously open-throated arias, the most fantastically determined music.” *Running time is approximate.
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 1 pm Expected Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes* Puccini’s wild-west opera had its world premiere in 1910 at the Met. Now, on the occasion of its centennial, all-American diva Deborah Voigt sings the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” starring opposite Marcello Giordani. Nicola Luisotti conducts. *Running time is approximate.
*Adams’s Nixon in China* – New Production Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 1 pm** Expected Running time: 4 hours* “All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon’s 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role. *Running time is approximate.
Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 1 pm (Encore from February 26) Expected Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes* Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo reprise their starring roles in Gluck’s nuanced and elegant interpretation of this primal Greek myth. Tenor Paul Groves also returns to Stephen Wadsworth’s insightful production, first seen in 2007. Patrick Summers conducts. *Running time is approximate.
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 1 pm Expected Running time: 4 hours* Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007–08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo. *Running time is approximate.
*Rossini’s Le Comte Ory* – New Production Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 1 pm** Expected Running time: 3 hours* Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana Damrau. Bartlett Sher, director of the Met’s hit productions of The Barber of Seville and The Tales of Hoffmann, describes the world of the opera as, “a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very funny and very painful. Rossini captures both—with the most beautiful love music Rossini ever wrote.” *Running time is approximate.
Strauss’s Capriccio Friday, April 29, 2011 at 7 pm (Encore from April 23) Expected Running time: 3 hours* On Opening Night of the 2008–09 season, Renée Fleming dazzled audiences when she sang the final scene of Strauss’s wise and worldly meditation on art and life. Now she performs the entire work, in which the composer explores the essence of opera itself. Joseph Kaiser and Sarah Connolly also star, and Andrew Davis conducts *Running time is approximate.
Verdi’s Il Trovatore Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 6 pm (Encore from April 30) Expected Running time: 3 hours* David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered in the 2008–09 season. James Levine leads this revival, starring four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score. *Running time is approximate.
*Wagner’s Die Walküre* – New Production Saturday, May 14 at 12 pm** Expected Running time: 5 hours, 15 minutes* A stellar cast comes together for this second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of the Ring cycle, conducted by James Levine. Bryn Terfel is Wotan, lord of the Gods. Deborah Voigt adds the part of Brünnhilde to her extensive Wagnerian repertoire at the Met. Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe is Fricka. *Running time is approximate.